Document Type : Original Article
Authors
1 PhD Student in Comparative Philosophy, Faculty of Law, Theology and Political Sciences, Science and Research Unit, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2 Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
Talking about the meaning of life and tying ethics and moral living with meaningful life, apart from any belief, has always been in deep philosophical thought. Nigel made efforts in this field and has his own intellectual and philosophical paradigms in the path of connecting biological ethics and the meaningfulness of life. The present research aims to explore the relationship between morality and the meaning of life from a philosophical perspective. Methodology: The methodological approach is qualitative which, through the analysis of Nigel's works on ethics and the meaning of life, has been achieved. Discussion and results: Believing in the alternative principle in ethics, Nigel acknowledges the fact that people have equal capacities and no person is superior to another. He considered the motivational foundation of morality in a person to be beyond desire and envisioned a moral action for him. He considers living ethically as a necessary component of the meaningfulness of life, and he believes that in addition to not believing in the world after death, the meaningfulness of this life can be achieved in the framework of biological ethics. Conclusion: Results showed that due to coexistence, humans can influence each other’s lives and make the life of this world meaningful through moral prepositions, even if they do not believe in the afterlife. If we target the component of ethics and bioethics from our daily relationships and interactions, the life of this world will become an anomic focus and meaning will emerge from our personal and social relationships.
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